CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-3675

7.8 HIGH Published 2005-11-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-11-18
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bandwidth consumption) by sending ACK messages for packets that have not yet been received (optimistic ACKs), which can cause the sender to increase its transmission rate until it fills available bandwidth.

Affected configurations

• tcp tcp

References